• History

    Idiocracy

    What Is Donald Trump Doing? Three Theories for the Madness

    Aron Solomon on the Chaos and the Cruelty of the Worst President in American History

     
    By Aron Solomon  March 7, 2025
    European History

    Groaning Under the Weight of History: Inside the Natural and Political Landscape of the Carpathian Mountains

    By Nick Thorpe  March 7, 2025
    Ukraine

    Margaret Atwood on Victoria Amelina, Who Recorded the Lives of Ukrainian Women Under War

    By Margaret Atwood  March 6, 2025
    Science fiction

    Ted Chiang on Superintelligence and Its Discontents in J.D. Beresford’s Innovative Work of Early 20th-Century Science Fiction

    By Ted Chiang  March 6, 2025
    Spirituality

    Bare Before the Sublime:
    A Short History of Nudity As Spiritual Practice

    By Philip Carr-Gomm  March 4, 2025
    Journalism

    The US Has a Journalism Crisis: Here’s Why Writers Are Leaving the Profession in Droves

    By Brittany Allen  March 4, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Ukraine

    What Russia’s Violent History of Occupation Reveals About Its Ongoing War on Ukraine

    By Sofi Oksanen  March 4, 2025
    Russia

    Invasions, Empires, Political Bromances: Five Nonfiction Books That Explain Modern Russia

    By Charles Hecker  March 4, 2025
    Nonfiction

    From Bowie to Baseball to Bitcoin: Ten Nonfiction Books to Check Out in March

    By Literary Hub  February 28, 2025
    Ancient History

    What the Smallest Artifacts Reveal About the Ancient Cultures That Created Them

    Jennifer Lucy Allan on the Millennia-Long Relationship Between Humans and Hands-On Creation

    By Jennifer Lucy Allan  March 7, 2025
    Politics

    The Rise of Ronald Reagan, a Product of California

    By Michael Hiltzik  February 26, 2025
    Conspiracy theories

    Tracing America’s Obsession With Conspiracy Theories Back to Its Founding

    By Andrew Lawler  February 25, 2025
    Gaza

    Omar El Akkad on Genocide, Complicit Liberals, and the Terrible Wrath of the West

    By Dan Sheehan  February 25, 2025
    Fashion History

    From Princely Regalia to Women’s Underwear: The Evolution of the Color Pink

    Michel Pastoureau on the History of a Color

    By Michel Pastoureau  February 24, 2025
    American History

    How Two of America’s Biggest Columnists Reacted to the Assassination of Malcolm X

    By Ted Hamm  February 21, 2025
    Music history

    How Little Richard Brought Black and Queer Culture to American Airwaves

    By Jon Savage  February 21, 2025
    Democracy

    Judith Butler: To Imagine a World After This, Democracy Needs the Humanities

    By Judith Butler  February 20, 2025
    Trans Rights

    In Purging Language About Trans People, Donald Trump and Elon Musk Are Trying to Purge the People Themselves

    Gabrielle Bellot on the Radical Power of Words As Weapons

    By Gabrielle Bellot  February 19, 2025
    Women Writers

    Who Were the Women Novelists Who Really Inspired Jane Austen?

    By Rebecca Romney  February 19, 2025
    Migration

    How the Pilgrims Redefined What It Means to Move Across the World

    By Yoni Appelbaum  February 19, 2025
    The Hub

    Remembering David Ruggles, the radical abolitionist who opened the first Black-owned bookstore.

    By Brittany Allen  February 18, 2025
    Feminism

    Wife, Mother, Labor Organizer: On the Hidden Activist Life of Betty Friedan

    Haley Mlotek Explores the Tension Between the Political and the Personal For the Author of “The Feminine Mystique”

    By Haley Mlotek  February 18, 2025
    Feminism

    How the Girlboss Lost: Sophie Lewis on the Rise and Fall of a Feminist Moment

    By Sophie Lewis  February 18, 2025
    In Conversation

    Elyse Durham on Depicting the Artistic Side of the Cold War in Fiction

    By Jane Ciabattari  February 18, 2025
    Trans History

    “We Owe Them Recognition.” On Recovering and Preserving Mexico’s Trans History

    By Alexandra R. DeRuiz  February 27, 2025
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